Diamant

2005 · Best.-Nr. vita5791 — New York: Viking 2005. Octavo black boards hardcover gilt letters xi 575 pp. Very Good in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: What is more haunting than the spectre of a civilization’s collapse -- the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat the Maya cities overgrown by jungle or the somber vigil of Easter Island’s statues Who hasn’t looked at such ruins and wondered could teh same thing happen to us In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin and what can we learn from their fates. Viking, (2005). hardcover books